Facebook is on a diet. Well, almost. “Facebook Lite” went into an accidentally-too-public beta last night, and the internets damn near blew up. It’s to compete with Twitter! It’s because they bought FriendFeed! It’s for the tiny robot that lives in your teeth because he doesn’t even use the rest of the features anyway! Wait…other people have the tiny robot nightmare, right?
Anyway, none of the above, apparently: According to Tech Crunch, “[FB Lite] was designed to be used in parts of the world where broadband speeds vary and can be expensive, we’re being told by Facebook. Given that the initial testing of it has taken place in India over the past several days, this makes sense.”
Ugh, what a let down. I really am hoping for a stripped-down Facebook to enter the market. Just yesterday I put out the Internet wish that FB would head in a more simple, clean direction, so even if this isn’t exactly what I’d hope for, I’m counting it as a win. Right now, my home FB page has a lot going on beyond the focus of the News Feed: The photos, the ads, the “suggestions,” the requests, it’s starting to feel like noise to me. I know other people use Facebook as their web home base, but I don’t; a lot less to do on that first page would be good news for me.
What do you think, PopWatchers? Is Facebook kinda cluttered? Or do want more, more, more, which you totally ask for in a “Rebel Yell” voice? (And you’re a fan of EW on Facebook, right?)
Facebook is extremely cluttered! The adds irritate me the most, get rid of them! A more stripped down version would make me very happy as well!
I would love to do away with the stupid applications, but I know that a lot of people really like those…so it’s unlikely.
I completely agree with this. The applications completely clutter the news feed. I have been
known to delete more than one Internet friend
due to their application usage.
I’m still one of those that misses the days when all kinds of news were on the news feed… not just on that silly sidebar thing. And, cliche as it is, I still think Facebook shouldn’t try to be like twitter. We have Twitter for that. Facebook is about being in touch with your friends, knowing what’s up with them. Etc, you’ve all heard this before…
I think a stripped-down FB would be cool.
I deactivated my facebook page three months ago, life has been grand without it, i plan to delete it when i get back in there and retrieve my friends contact information, for now, i’ll just wait till someone can do social networking better. I’m sure someone’s working on that, wish they’d hurry up.
I love Orkut (from Google) and I’ve been using it for 6 years now. I tried MySpace, and Facebook but still love the clean look and efficiency of Orkut.
More, more, more!!!
(And keep the ads, cuz that’s what allows FB to actually make a little money.)
Please don’t mess up with FB. I you want to tweet, open a tweeter account.
I like to know whats going on with my friends!
I’m a big fan of “hiding” crap on Facebook. I’m not fans of anyone, and I block and hide all applications. My facebook is clean and beautiful.
How do you do that?? Hide the apps I mean?
Yes! I would love for it to become uncluttered! I’m very tired of see what someone has added to their farm or which Steel Magnolia they are.
Let Facebook be Facebook and Twitter be Twitter.
I essentially left facebook ages ago, and then embraced twitter wholeheartedly becasue it turned out that that was what i’d always wanted from facebook.
i don like facebook lie…. regular facebook is only good
in this facebook lite even we cannot accept the friends request
its really boringg
facebook lite could be good…4 u facebook lite….
but i hate this… and accidently m not able to use regular facebook it always throw me 2 lite 1…. if it wont become normal by tomorrow m going 2 discontinue with facebook. facebook regular ill miss u.
m here on facebook for applications… not for mailing… so facebooklite is of no use 4 me…